President Barack Obama nominated current Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Inspector General Jon Rymer for the job. Rymer made his case Thursday during his
confirmation hearing before the committee.

Rymer has been the FDIC IG since 2006. He recently retired from the Army reserves
with more than 30 years of service between his active and reserve duty. He is a
graduate of the Army's Inspector General School. His experience in the private
sector includes seven years in consulting and interval auditing at a major
accounting firm and 15 years as a senior manager in the banking industry.

If confirmed, Rymer said he plans to work with the services to address sexual assault.

When Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) asked if a recent DoD IG audit of sexual assault
cases that revealed 10 percent of those cases contained flawed investigations
concerned him, Rymer said, "I think the issues of sexual assault are certainly
something the IG has to pay more attention to than the office has in the past."

Rymer added, "10 percent is a high number. Perhaps more concerning, though, is the
variation in process and procedure used among the different services to
investigate sexual assault crimes. The role of the IG is to encourage consistency
and identification of best practices."

Rymer said the rising number of
suicides in the military "a national tragedy."

He also would focus on suicide prevention.

Donnelly said more service members were lost as a result of suicide than combat
last year. He asked about oversight of prevention programs.

While very familiar with the Army's prevention programs, Rymer said he believed
the role of the IG is to provide oversight for the effectiveness of the programs
in place and an analysis of the money spent by each of the services.

In addition to Rymer, Stephen Preston, the nominee for DoD's general counsel,
Susan Rabern, the nominee to be assistant secretary of the Navy for financial
management and comptroller, and Dennis McGinn, the nominee to be assistant
secretary of the Navy for energy, installations and environment, also testified.